I plan to fit some SEM models in Mplus (We have ordered an Mplus a while ago, but have not heard back). The measurement model has items that are treated as categorical. Then the factor is predicted by some other observed variables in the data. I was wondering if possible at all to get standard errors for the standardised output. I am partcuarly interested in the path coefficients, so would like to know the standard errors in order to know if the standardised path coefficients are statistically signficant or not.

Standard errors for standardized estimates are available in most cases. The STANDARDIZED option is not available for models with random slopes defined using the | symbol in conjunction with the ON, AT and XWITH options or for parameters in MODEL CONSTRAINT involving variables named on the CONSTRAINT statement of the VARIABLE command. For weighted least squares estimation when the model has covariates, STDY and standard errors for standardized estimates are not available. For the MUML estimator, STDY and standard errors for standardized estimates are not available.

Thank you! Yes. I think the default esimator is WLSMV. It is not multilevel or with interaction. It is just SEM with the items forming the depedent variable declared as categorical. Then which estimator would you recommend to use for getting the standard errors for standardised solutions please?

If you want to use WLSMV and the model has covariates, you would need to compute the standard errors yourself. You could also use maximum likelihood estimation with categorical outcomes where standard errors for standardized coefficients are obtained. The only drawback would be if your model has too many dimensions of integration.

I am encoutering the same situation (WLSMV estimator and no standard errors), and I saw from previous posts that you suggested the delta method for computing standard errors-- but this method using software seems to require transformation function, the means, and variance-covariance matrix. Is this correct, and is there a more simple way to hand-calculate the standard errors myself?

Is it possible to compute standard errors using Mplus output that is produced by SEMs that include latent variable interactions (e.g., that use the "xwith" command)? If so, how can I compute these standard errors?

Since TECH4 is unavailable for latent variable interactions using the "xwith" command, I used Bengt's (2012) article entitled LATENT VARIABLE INTERACTIONS to compute standardized parameter estimates; however, I did not in that article see any mention of how to compute the associated standard errors for these estimates.

Thank you for any help with this, and sorry if I'm overlooking something obvious here...

I am fitting a SEM with all numeric observed variables and one latent variable in which the assumption of multivariate Normality is implausible. I wanted to use the bootstrapping option but find that SEs for the STDYX estimates are not reported, although they are when I do not use the bootstrap. My syntax is below in case that helps. Could you suggest how I could get SEs for standardized estimates or why that is not possible in this case?